: | The Press | Joanne Naish | Gloriavale community members are showcasing their artistic talents in a new exhibition at Greymouth’s Left Bank Gallery. Organiser, community leader and photographer Peter Righteous said the exhibition, named Glorious Artworks, includes paintings, charcoal drawings, landscape photographs, model aircraft and chessboards with hand-made wooden…
: | The Press | Joanne Naish | Gloriavale has posted a deficit of more than $860,000 and has a new bank after being dumped by BNZ – although which bank has taken on the controversial West Coast community remains a mystery. In December, the Court of Appeal ruled in favour of…
: | Greymouth Star | Laura Mills |[Subscription Only] Gloriavale has found a new bank, after BNZ won a court case to discontinue services. The Court of Appeal cleared the way for the Australian-owned bank to close Gloriavale’s accounts in December. That includes the Christian community’s businesses and some of the largest dairy farms…
: | Greymouth Star | Subscription Only | Almost 100 representatives from all around New Zealand have spent the past few days on the West Coast for the REAP Aotearoa national conference. The conference was co-hosted by BullerREAP and WestREAP, with delegates being united under the theme ‘community, connection and culture’.…
: | Greymouth Star | Laura Mills |[Subscription Only] After six years of surplus, the under-pressure Gloriavale Christian Community has reported a deficit of over $800,000. For the year ended July 2024, it reported one full-time employee and 22 volunteers. A surplus of $3.4 million two years ago dropped to $766,000…
: | Greymouth Star | Arianna Stewart |[Subscription Only] Artists from the Gloriavale Christian Community are excited to mount their first exhibition ‘Glorious Artworks’ at the Left Bank Art Gallery in Greymouth. “The idea is that we want to always be keeping in mind with our art that we glorify God,”…
: | The Press | Dennis Gates | Dennis Gates is a lawyer from Cambridge who was involved in the early litigation against Gloriavale. OPINION: It’s two years since the Employment Court ruled that a group of Gloriavale women were employees not volunteers, and a year since the TV documentary Escaping Utopia revealed that…
: | RNZ | Sharon Brettkelly | The government is set to review charities’ tax-free status, which sees churches avoid paying income tax. An atheist professor says changing the laws would be devastating for New Zealand. If the thousands of churches in New Zealand paid income tax, the government’s coffers would…
: | Greymouth Star | Laura Mills |[Subscription Only] A year after a television documentary looked into Gloriavale’s outpost in India, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) is declining to say what action it took. In the TVNZ ‘docuseries’, Escaping Utopia, former Gloriavale members travelled to India and met a member who moved…
: | Kete | Theophila Pratt was born Honey Faithful in Gloriavale, the fundamentalist Christian community that has been at the centre of decades of allegations of sexual and physical assualt, and workplace exploitation. Raised in this isolated community, where a small contingent of men held all the power, Theo found…
